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<?php print _("Internationalization of the Linux Counter is handled using gettext functionality. This way we are able to create so called portable object files (filename.po) with original strings and, in time, their translations. Using these portable object files, message object files (filename.mo) are created which are used as quick access, binary language files. These are then used by the web pages and scripts to present strings in the right language.") ?>
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<?php print _("The portable object files are the ones which are sent out for translation. These files have a format which I'll explain below:") ?>

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"Project-Id-Version: Linux Counter 1.0\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-01-03 08:12+0000\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME &lt;EMAIL@ADDRESS&gt;\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE &lt;translate@counter.li.org&gt;\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

#: credits.php:9
msgid "Credits"
msgstr ""
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<li><b>"Project-Id-Version : Linux Counter 1.0\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("The version of this Project file.") ?> <em><?php print _("Not to be changed by translators") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"POT-Creation-Date: 2005-01-03 08:12+0000\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Creation date of this file.") ?> <em><?php print _("Not to be changed by translators") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Revision date of this file. The date you have finished the translations and sent back this file.") ?> <em><?php print _("To be changed by translators.") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"Last-Translator: FULL NAME &lt;EMAIL@ADDRESS&gt;\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Full name and email address of translator(s).") ?> <em><?php print _("To be changed by translators.") ?></em> <?php print _("Please fill in your email address as other translators of your language should have the possibility to ask questions. Email addresses will be kept private") ?></li>
<li><b>"Language-Team: LANGUAGE &lt;<?php emailCloaking("translate@counter.li.org", 0) ?>&gt;\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Language of translation in this file.") ?> <em><?php print _("To be changed by translator. Please don't change the email address") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"</b> : <em><?php print _("Not to be changed") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Character set of the translation. Something like iso-8859-1.") ?> <em><?php print _("To be changed by translators to the charset they use when writing the file. If in doubt, and you can, use UTF-8.") ?></em></li>
<li><b>"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"</b> : <em><?php print _("Not to be changed") ?></em></li>
<li><b>#: credits.php:9</b> <?php print ": " . _("Comment with filename(s) and line number(s) were this string appears. Can be useful to find out in what context a string is used. Prepend the filename with http://i18n.counter.li.org to view the content in a browser.") ?> <em><?php print _("Do not change the string after msgid") ?></em></li>
<li><b>msgid "Credits"</b> <?php print ": " . _("Original, English string.") ?> <em><?php print _("Not to be changed") ?></em></li>
<li><b>msgstr ""</b> <?php print ": " . _("Between the double quotes, the translation in your language of the string in the previous msgid.") ?> <em><?php print _("To be changed by translators.") ?></em></li>
</ol>

<h2><?php print _("Translation process") ?></h2>
<?php print _("To smoothly handle the flood of translations I'll try to follow the following process:") ?>
<ul>
<li><?php print _("At this page I'll add a section mentioning the state of a language translation knowing the following states:") ?>
  <ul>
  <li><b><?php print _("Finished + date") ?></b> <?php print ": " . _("The current portable object file is completely translated") ?></li>
  <li><b><?php print _("In progress + date + translator name") ?></b> <?php print ": " . _("One of our translators is translating the portable object file") ?></li>
  <li><b><?php print _("Incomplete + date") ?></b> <?php print ": " . _("We have added new strings to the portable object file and somebody needs to offer to translate them or the translator had no time to completely translate the portable objects file. Nobody is currently translating this file") ?></li>
  </ul></li>
<li><?php print _("Once a month, when needed, we will make available a new portable objects file with freshly added strings to be translated. This will be announced at the") . emailCloaking("translate@counter.li.org", 0) .  _("mailinglist. The state will be changed. (You can subscribe to this list by sending the word <b>subscribe</b> in the body of an email to") . emailCloaking("translate-request@counter.li.org", 0) ?>)</li>
<li><?php print _("When you are in the mode to do translations for a language, please announce it at the translate mailinglist and you are send the portable objects file. This file will only be sent at request so we are not sending the file to people who don't want to translate anymore, don't have time for the new round of translations, etc .....") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("When you have (partly) finished translations and want to see the result, please mail your portable objects file to") . emailCloaking("linuxcounter@patrickr.xs4all.nl", 0) . ". " . _("I'll then make sure it will be taken care of. I'll also send a note to the translator when translations are available at the site.") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("One month after starting with translations for a language I'll personally start asking the translator for the current state of translations. This will then be repeated every month untill finished......") ?> </li>
</ul>

<h2><?php print _("Translation Guidelines") ?></h2>
<?php print _("As problems can occur during translations, below I'll try to define some guidelines which have to be followed during translations:") ?>
<ul>
<li><?php print _("Sometimes sentences contain html tags like &lt;em&gt;. These could have been left out, splitting the sentence to be translated in a couple of parts. To make life easier we didn't split up these sentences and kept in the html tags. Please use them in your translation too.") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("When strings contain double quotes, please escape those quotes in your translations using a backslash, like this: \\\"") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("sometime you'll see a comment") ?> <b># fuzzy</b><?php print ". " . _("New msgids to be translated are merged into the portable object file using the command msgmerge. This command tries to find out if there already exists a translation for a new msgid. Sometimes it thinks there is, but being in doubt, it adds the comment") ?> <b># fuzzy</b> <?php print _("above the msgid. Normally those translations are WRONG and need attention. After correcting them please remove the") ?> <b>#, fuzzy</b> <?php print _("lines from the file.") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("Another comment to be found is <b>#, c-format</b>. This means the string to be translated has some parameters for the printf command in it. These parameters can be recognized by the %-sign they are prepended with. To keep things working, DON'T CHANGE THE ORDER OF THESE PARAMETERS IN THE TRANSLATED STRING!!") ?></li>
<li><?php print _("Last but not least, when textual site updates happen, sentences to be translated will change. The msgmerge command will move sentences and their translations which are no longer needed to the end of the portable object file and make them comments. As these translations can still be usefull for you I shall leave them in the file. Please verify those translations and remove them from the file when you don't need them anymore. Otherwise the portable object file will become enormous.") ?></li>
</ul>
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<?php print _("Although I have tried to get out most of the stupidities, almost equal strings and other stuff, it will surely be possible that you find strings which should somehow be handled before translation. Please mail these kind of concerns to") . emailCloaking("linuxcounter@patrickr.xs4all.nl", 0) . _("and I'll have a look.") ?>
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<?php print _("Good luck !") ?>
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<h2><?php print _("Current translation state") ?></h2>
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<tr><th><?php print _("Language") ?></th><th><?php print _("State") ?></th><th><?php print _("Version") ?></th><th><?php print _("Since date") ?></th><th><?php print _("Translator") ?></th></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Albanian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>18-01-2005</td><td>Genc B. Kastrati</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Bengali") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>07-04-2005</td><td>Russell John</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Brazilian Portuguese") ?></td><td><?php print _("Finished") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>09-11-2005</td><td><em>Igor Vitorio Custodio</em></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Bulgarian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>29-11-2005</td><td>Marian Marinov</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Catalan") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>01-05-2005</td><td>Eduard Selma</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Danish") ?></td><td><?php print _("Incomplete") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>30-12-2006</td><td><!-- Tim R&oslash;rstr&oslash;m, Carsten B. Jensen --></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Dutch") ?></td><td><?php print _("Finished") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>29-10-2005</td><td><em>Patrick Reijnen</em></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Farsi") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>13-02-2005</td><td>Dawood Morady Garawand</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Finnish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.4</td><td>28-06-2005</td><td>Jyri-Petteri Paloposki</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Flemish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>22-03-2005</td><td>Andy Pieters</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("French") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>05-01-2005</td><td>Vinc&egrave;n Pujol</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("German") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>01-02-2006</td><td>Steffen Sauer, Dirk Schneider (former translator)</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Georgian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.4</td><td>11-08-2005</td><td>Aiet Kolkhi</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Greek") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>19-01-2005</td><td>Elias Sofronas</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Hindi") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>02-06-2005</td><td>Dhananjaya Sharma</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Hungarian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.4</td><td>06-01-2005</td><td>Mih&aacute;ly Gyulai</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Indonesia") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>12-11-2005</td><td>Tamami</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Italian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>19-02-2006</td><td>David Paleino, Vincenzo Ing. Virgilio, Antenore Gatta</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Iranian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.4</td><td>23-07-2005</td><td>Ali Reza Piran</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Kurdish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>04-02-2005</td><td>Abdullah Ulas</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Latvian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>19-01-2005</td><td>Andrejs Silins</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Norwegian") ?></td><td><?php print _("Finished") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>24-11-2005</td><td><em>Harald Alvestrand</em></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Polish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>31-01-2005</td><td>Marcin Sochacki, Marcin Orda</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Portuguese") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>04-03-2005</td><td>Carlos Pina</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Romanian") ?></td><td><?php print _("Incomplete") ?></td><td>1.3</td><td>01-06-2005</td><td><!-- <em>Dorin Dumitru</em> --></td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Russian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>19-11-2005</td><td>Alex Savvin, Pavel Maryanov</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Serbian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.3</td><td>01-02-2005</td><td>Aleksandar Urosevic</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Slovak") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>22-03-2005</td><td>Jan Urbancik</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Spanish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>07-10-2006</td><td>Jorge Martinez, Yosu, Nestor Sertzen, AlvLin, Victor Hammersley, Miguel Angel</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Swedish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.5</td><td>29-10-2005</td><td>Alexander Brink</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Tagalog") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>05-01-2005</td><td>Eric Pareja</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Turkish") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>??</td><td>04-02-2005</td><td>Abdullah Ulas</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php print _("Ukrainian") ?></td><td><?php print _("In progress") ?></td><td>1.4</td><td>17-10-2005</td><td>Pavel Smirnov</td></tr>
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